The Prism Prize is a national juried award recognizing the artistry of the modern music video in Canada . A jury of over 120 Canadian music and film industry professionals, including members of the print and web media, broadcasting, film, radio, and video art communities, nominate the 10 best videos of the year to comprise the Prism Prize shortlist. The winning video receives a cash prize of $ 20,000. This is the richest cash prize for music videos in North America.
22-648: Founded by Louis Calabro in 2012, the award is administered by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television . The inaugural Prism Prize was awarded in March 2013 to director Noah Pink for Rich Aucoin ’s "Brian Wilson Is A.L.I.V.E", while director Vincent Morisset took home the Audience Award for Arcade Fire ’s "Sprawl II". For the second award presentation in 2014, the Prism Prize introduced two new awards,
44-477: A Little Blurry , Orphan Black , and Dino Ranch . Boat Rocker owns other entertainment properties, including Jam Filled Entertainment , Insight Productions , Matador Content , and Platform One Media, and does talent management and venture investing. Boat Rocker Media had their beginnings in June 2013 when Temple Street Productions announced that they had launched digital studio Boat Rocker Studios as
66-691: A digital division of Temple Street Media Ventures to focus on original digital content. Four years later in February 2016, following Fairfax Financial acquisition of a majority stake in film and television production company Temple Street Productions along with their Boat Rocker Studios brand Temple Street Productions and their owners Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier announced that they're expanding their operations and their restructured business were being consolidated and reorganized under their company Temple Street Productions along with their new rights, ventures, animation and brand businesses under one group which
88-433: A global partnership and announced original animated television and digital series with Boat Rocker's division Boat Rocker Ventures leading the partnership. In May 2017, Boat Rocker Media announced that they restructured their unscripted assets and unveiled that they're bringing them together as a new factual division dedicated to the company's factual and unscripted projects named Crooked Horse Productions and will sit within
110-558: A shortlist of 10 finalists was announced on March 22, and the winner was named on May 15. The longlist for the 2020 Prism Prize was announced in February 2020, with the shortlist originally slated to be announced on April 2 and the winner to be announced on May 11. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada , however, the prize committee cancelled the May 11 event, and postponed the announcement of
132-586: Is Tammy Frick . The organization's previous CEO was Beth Janson , who left in April 2022 to take a job as chief operating officer of the Toronto International Film Festival . Since December 2023, the chair of the board of directors] is Thomas Santram and the vice-chair is Solange Attwood. The previous chair of the board of directors was John Young of Boat Rocker Media . Boat Rocker Media Boat Rocker Media Inc.
154-678: Is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize the achievements of the over 4,000 Canadian film industry and television industry professionals, most notably through the Canadian Screen Awards The mandate of the Academy is to honour outstanding achievements; to heighten public awareness of and increase audience attendance of and appreciationпа of Canadian film and television productions; and to provide critically needed, high-quality professional development programs, conferences and publications. Since 2012,
176-552: Is a Canadian entertainment company based in Toronto , Ontario. The company owns Boat Rocker Studios, which incorporates Temple Street Productions . Its majority shareholder is Fairfax Financial . Boat Rocker is led by co-executive chairs David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg and CEO John Young. Boat Rocker produces and distributes a wide range of scripted and unscripted television shows, animation and family content, such as Invasion , American Rust , Billie Eilish: The World's
198-787: The Toronto Arrows , CAA Creative Labs, In September 2019, Boat Rocker acquired Platform One Media, a Los Angeles-based television production and sales company operated by television producer Katie O'Connell Marsh, whose credits include Hannibal and Narcos . Marsh stayed on after the acquisition. In December 2020, Temple Street was incorporated into Boat Rocker Studios, Scripted. Boat Rocker signed first-look deals with Lena Headey 's Peephole Productions and Dakota Johnson 's TeaTime Pictures. In March 2021, it partnered with television executive Jessica Sebastian-Dayeh to create Maven, which focuses on female-led stories. Most recently, on December 20, 2021, Boat Rocker had bought out
220-567: The Academy's primary national awards program is the Canadian Screen Awards , which were announced that year as a replacement for the formerly distinct Genie Award (for film) and Gemini Award (for television) ceremonies. The Prix Gémeaux for French-language television remains a separate awards program. The organization also administers the Prism Prize for music videos. The chief executive officer as of October 2022
242-761: The Boat Rocker Studios division. In September 2017, Boat Rocker Media announced that they had brought Toronto-based television production and distribution company Proper Television along with their distribution division Proper Rights five months after the passing of the founder and president of Proper Television Guy O'Sullivan back in April of that same year, thus extending Boat Rocker Media's unscripted operations and their production and distribution business with Proper Television continuing to operate as an independent unscripted production label under Boat Rocker's division Boat Rocker Studios with Proper Television's Lesia Capone and Cathie James becoming co-presidents of
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#1732772378538264-607: The Special Achievement Award for artistic achievements and exceptional contribution to music video art on a world stage, and the Arthur Lipsett Award for innovative and unique approaches to music video art. The 2014 Prism Prize was presented on March 23, 2014 to director Emily Kai Bock for her Arcade Fire "Afterlife" video. The Audience Award went to director Kheaven Lewandowski for his video for "River" by The Belle Game. The Arthur Lipsett Award
286-512: The acquired company. Proper's international distribution arm Proper Rights was being consolidated and folded into Boat Rocker's existing global distribution division Boat Rocker Rights marking the expansion of Boat Rocker's distribution library. In January 2018, to expand Boat Rocker Media's premium kids and family entertainment catalogue, Boat Rocker Media announced that they've acquired British-based global production company FremantleMedia 's Kids & Family Entertainment division which includes
308-580: The children's programming library of Thames Television and had it interrogated into Boat Rocker Media's global distribution division Boat Rocker Rights in order for FremantleMedia to focus on their scripted and unscripted operations. The acquisition also marked the first time Boat Rocker had entered the international market. In May 2018, Boat Rocker Media announced that they acquired a majority stake in Toronto-based Canadian unscripted television production company Insight Productions with
330-520: The company continuing to operate as an independent business unit along with their chairman and CEO John Brunton. Six years later in August 2024, Boat Rocker Media announced that they've taken full ownership of unscripted production company Insight Productions by acquiring the remaining 30% stake that they didn't own. In November 2018, Boat Rocker Media announced that they acquired New York and LA-based American unscripted production company Matador Content
352-420: The first Canadian music video. Nominees were announced on February 14, 2013, and the winners were announced on March 24. Nominees were announced on February 18, 2014, and the winners were announced on March 23. Nominees were announced on February 12, 2015, and the winners were announced on March 29. Beginning in 2016, the prize revised its process. A longlist of 20 nominees was announced on February 9, 2016,
374-678: The producer of the Paramount Network series Lip Sync Battle and its spinoff Lip Sync Battle Shorties on sister network Nickelodeon , marking Boat Rocker Media's first American acquisition along with their expansion into the American television market. In March 2019, Boat Rocker invested in Untitled Entertainment, a talent management and production company. It has also made investments in Realm Media ,
396-492: The winners to July 22 for the special awards, and July 23 for the topline categories. In addition, they opted not to issue a shortlist, instead announcing that all 20 longlisted nominees would be eligible for the final awards. The longlisted nominees for the 2021 Prism Prize were announced on April 29, 2021, with the shortlist announced on June 9 and the winners announced on July 26. Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
418-544: Was presented to Scott Cudmore and Michael LeBlanc for their innovative video work. The Special Achievement Award went to Floria Sigismondi . In 2020 the committee introduced the Willie Dunn Award, a lifetime achievement award honouring Canadians who have been trailblazers in the art of music video. The award was named in memory of Willie Dunn , an indigenous Canadian musician whose 1968 animated short film The Ballad of Crowfoot has sometimes been credited as
440-581: Was rebranded as Boat Rocker Media with Scheeberg and Fortier becoming CEO of the new group. Their production company Temple Street Productions which they acquired ten years ago were now being operated alongside Boat Rocker Digital under Boat Rocker Media's new largest division named Boat Rocker Studios along with Boat Rocker Digital. Temple Street's distribution arm Temple Street Distribution was rebranded and renamed as Boat Rocker Rights along with launching an in-house animation studio named Boat Rocker Animation. Boat Rocker Rights' first outside distribution deal
462-875: Was to continue operating with current management and name alongside their founders with Boat Rocker Media expanding further their kids and family operations and their acquired company Jam Filled Entertainment joining Boat Rocker's acquired company Radical Sheep and their in-house animation studio Boat Rocker Animation. One week later in that same month, Boat Rocker Media announced that their distribution division Boat Rocker Rights had acquired Peace Point Entertainment Group's distribution sales arm Peace Point Rights along with their factual and lifestyle programming catalog. Boat Rocker through Jam Filled purchased Arc Productions' main assets on August 22, 2016, and reopened Arc's Toronto office. In April 2017, Boat Rocker Media announced that they teamed up with New York-based American mobile-centric kids media company MarcoPolo Learning to form
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#1732772378538484-990: Was with the pick-up of international rights to Steve Rotfeld Productions ' Xploration Station block's programs in late February 2016. Then in June 2016, the unit acquired Mountain Road Productions library distribution rights plus a first look deal with the company. In March 2016, Boat Rocker Media announced that they bought Canuck-based television production company and animation outfit Radical Sheep Productions to expand their kids and family operations with Radical Sheep becoming Boat Rocker Media's original kids and family media content arm with Temple Street's kids productions such as The Next Step being moved to their acquired company while Radical Sheep continued operating as Boat Rocker's family and children's media unit. In early August 2016, Boat Rocker Media announced that they added another animation studio by purchasing Ottawa-based animation studio Jam Filled Entertainment , which
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